I prefer the transcript, as it lets me digest this at my own pace. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/transcript http://www.thisamerica

I prefer the transcript, as it lets me digest this at my own pace. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/transcript http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t... Having said that, the biggest takeaway the podcast that I'm getting (still mid-read) is that it was /integration/, the incubation of children within a target culture and environment designed for success, that had the most profound impact. It was society working, even if in an odd way, to extract people from a dysfunctional environment and raise them within a working one. Based mostly on this and some anecdotal data, I feel that fighting 'segregation' the other direction, by trying to add 'non-problem students' to failed environments would have a similar effect on them; mostly in halting their growth and causing their integration within society that works to falter. This suggests that the war on poverty isn't something that can be won by funding alone, but instead by fighting to spread the culture of 'good' society further.